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Coping with ‘Natural’ Disasters in Pre-industrial Societies

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Jürg Helbling was a Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich. E-mail: helbling{at}access.unizh.ch.

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The Medieval History Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1-2, 429-446 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/097194580701000216


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